Sentence examples for Amendment ratified from inspiring English sources

(The 16th Amendment, ratified in 1913, did).

An amendment ratified in 1961 gave Washingtonians the right to vote in presidential elections.

(The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, protects the same rights from infringement by the states).

The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, set the formal two-term limit.

The 13th Amendment, ratified after the Civil War, abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.

The fluky 27th Amendment, ratified in 1992, had been sent to the states in 1789.

The constitutional amendments ratified after the Civil War, he said, "entrust Congress with ensuring that the right to vote — surely among the most important guarantees of political liberty in the Constitution — is not abridged on account of race.

The elections could be based on the constitutional amendments ratified by the Palestinian Legislative Council in March 2003, which are intended to shift power from the office of the president to those of the cabinet and prime minister.

Of course, in contemporary legal contexts the issue doesn't even get started, since the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments (ratified after the Civil War) prohibit the denial of civil rights to blacks.

Citizens may continue to have input into the plan via amendments ratified at a later date.

After the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, Paul embarked on a new crusade: to pass an Equal Rights Amendment.